Samantha Stocks

Sam is a freelance writer and editor with a passion for wildlife and the outdoors.

Recent articles by Samantha Stocks

Humpback whales

How climate change impacted UK wildlife in 2021

Man shooting birds in field of flowers

Game meat with high levels of lead being sold in UK supermarkets

Rock art carving representing a deer, at Dunchraigaig Cairn, Kilmartin Glen.

Earliest known animal carvings in Scotland discovered

Grey squirrel. © Craige Mcgonigle

Living With Mammals survey: how to take part and species to spot

Spoonbill - David Morris (rspb)

Wildlife successes abound at RSPB reserves during 2020

A blue shark (Prionace glauca) cruises beneath the surface of the English Channel with sunbeams and lens flare. Penzance, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. British Isles. North East Atlantic Ocean.

Breathtaking photographs of life beneath the UK’s seas

A Eurasian beaver male swimming in a pond in a large woodland enclosure soon after release at National Trust South Downs. ©National Trust

National Trust reintroduces beavers to southeast England

Peregrine Falcon chicks at Corfe Castle. Credit Neil Davidson

Climate change sees mixed fortunes for wildlife in 2020

PPE Litter, Cornwall, Great British Beach clean/Credit: Natasha Ewins

Great British Beach Clean finds PPE littering the UK’s shorelines

Looking up at a tree canopy/Credit: Getty Images

The Woodland Trust aim to plant 50 million trees by 2021

A sea eagle in flight/Credit: Dorothea Oldani, Unspalsh

Sea eagles successfully breed in Deeside for the first time in 200 years

Large blue butterfly on Rodborough Common. Credit David Simcox

Gloucestershire site welcomes the return of Britain’s rarest butterfly

Beaver female/Credit: Mike Symes, Devon Wildlife Trust

Wild beavers granted legal right to remain in England

Woodland of Cannock Chase, England

World’s first forest soundmap project calls for participants

Fire at the closed Charnwood Lodge Nature Reserve

Nature reserves damaged as lockdown restrictions ease